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Microsoft Investigating Windows VBScript Security Hole

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Todays Top Picks, March 2, 2010
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Microsoft described a zero-day vulnerability involving some older Windows versions and VBScript when used with Internet Explorer....

On The Blink (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, February 27, 2010
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One of the really fun things about being associated with the Visual Basic team is getting to see all of the varied usages to which our customers put it.  From enterprise software to games, our cu...

How To Obtain Environment Details With .NET 3.5

Radical Development, February 23, 2010
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Have you ever found yourself needing to obtain environment details concerning the server where your application resides? If so, take a look at the System Namespace and specifically the Environment Cla...

Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., February 19, 2010
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If like me, you have a cant live with it, cant live without it relationship with Crystal Reports and have made a significant investment in reporting with their tools, you might be digging around the V...

Vermont IT Jobs: Part-time FoxPro development gig in Burlington through July

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., February 17, 2010
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From Seven Days Classifieds: Temporary position on breast cancer research project (http://www.uvm.edu/~vbcss). FoxPro for Windows knowledge and experience is required. Half to full-time through July...

Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs

Misfit Geek, February 11, 2010
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This week someone referred me to this blog post about Small Basic. What a cool idea for playing teaching beginners of kids about programming or just playing around. You can even build Silverlight...

New Learning Resources on the Visual Basic Developer Center (Beth Massi)

The Visual Basic Team, February 2, 2010
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Today we revamped some of the Visual Basic Developer Center Learn pages with more content that allows you to pivot on more fine-grained topics and tasks related to Visual Basic programming. Weve start...

What didn't get into VB10: a wish-list for future versions of VB

The Visual Basic Team, January 28, 2010
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Visual Studio 2010 is almost out the door. Now is a good time to look back at what we didn't get into the language in this release, but would have wanted to, and so will consider for future releases. ...

Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference?

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., January 27, 2010
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<Refresher> When you pass parameters in VB, you use the ByVal and ByRef keyworks. The default in VB is ByRef with a nuance (see ByRef Parameters Passed by Value)  In C#, no keyword mean...

New Office 2010 Developer Video

John R. Durants WebLog, January 27, 2010
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We just published a new video on MSDN that provides a great starting point for understanding what we're talking about when we speak about "Office 2010 productivity solutions". You can watch the vide...

The many cases of ByRef

The Visual Basic Team, January 26, 2010
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One of the overlooked or simply misunderstood features of the VB language is calling a function which has a ByRef parameter.  Most languages support only a single method of passing parameters by ...

MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic 6 Simplicity and Intensive AJAX Richness for the Web and Cloud

MSDN: ASP.NET, January 26, 2010
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Why are Web development tasks so complex? Discover the right combination between the greatest Web benefits and the most mature development paradigms during this webcast....

DotNetNuke Survey Module: Display User Name in Excel Export

Joe Brinkman, January 15, 2010
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Someone asked me how to display the user name rather than just the UserID in the Survey module results export file. When you create a Survey with the Survey module, you can go to Settings and c...

Excel VBA Cells and Hyperlinks

John R. Durants WebLog, January 7, 2010
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I track some information in Excel, and one of the columns is for a link to some location (blogs, Web sites, etc.). One of the things is that I don't want the URL to appear as it creates display issues...

Hidden Gems in VB2010 Serializing Objects that Raise Events (Jonathan Aneja)

The Visual Basic Team, December 15, 2009
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By now you've likely heard about the major new features coming in VB 2010, but there's also a number of smaller additions in the language and IDE that might not be as readily noticeable.  "Hidde...

Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

Brad Abrams, December 12, 2009
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Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work.  And in fact, just the other day, I ran into a problem getting my own samples to work.  It tu...

The Visual WebGui Windows Over Web (WOW) Revolution for Web Development

The Code Project Latest Articles, December 9, 2009
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Visual WebGui is reshaping web development, the way VB6 did with WOW - Windows Over Web revolution. Visual WebGui enables VB-like drag & drop, object oriented, WYSIWYG development methodologies but ad...

Helpful Content Links for Getting Started with Office Development

John R. Durants WebLog, December 7, 2009
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Im often asked for helpful content links for content around VBA, Microsoft Office Backstage view, and Ribbon. Heres a collection: VBA Video Title URL Visual Basic for Applications Overview htt...

Robbe has almost 20 years of management and technical experience. He shares his thoughts on how to perform best in job interviews as well as how to get your resume noticed.

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, December 7, 2009
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How to interview for a job using C# or VB.NET  read moreBy Robbe Morris...

Sample Cassini Web Service available

ASP.NET Announcements, December 6, 2009
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Have succesfully implemented a Web Service using Cassini, VB.Net DLL, VC++ DLL and Metatrader for remote trading. The configuration is a straighforward process. The sample is at http://groups.google....

Implementing TreeView in a NavBar

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 30, 2009
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One question that pops up surprisingly often is how to embed a TreeView control (or any other, but TreeView owes its dominant popularity to Outlook navigation pane) inside a NavBar panel and have it...

Implementing TreeView in a NavBar

ComponentArt WebLogs, November 30, 2009
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One question that pops up surprisingly often is how to embed a TreeView control (or any other, but TreeView owes its dominant popularity to Outlook navigation pane) inside a NavBar panel and have it...

The Road to RIA

Simple Talk, November 26, 2009
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Tools such as Visual Basic (VB) and Visual FoxPro succeeded and became wildly popular because they provided simple and effective abstractions of a programming language. This allowed relatively inexper...

VBA in Office 2010 Articles Live!

John R. Durants WebLog, November 23, 2009
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We have published some new content about VBA in Office 2010: Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Excel 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 Getting Started wit...

Parallel Debugging

The Moth, November 13, 2009
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parallel debugging is easy. Two new debugging windows provide a total view of the internals of your PPL and TPL applications with hints on where to start investigations. These are not mere extensions ...

Parallel Debugging

The Moth, November 13, 2009
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parallel debugging is easy. Two new debugging windows provide a total view of the internals of your PPL and TPL applications with hints on where to start investigations. These are not mere extensions ...

Spot the Bug! Much ado about Nothing Part 2! (Jonathan Aneja)

The Visual Basic Team, November 6, 2009
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In yesterdays post we saw that the use of the wrong comparison operator with Nothing in an If block can lead to surprising results.  Lets look at a slightly different case today:    &nb...

Spot the Bug! Much Ado about Nothing (Jonathan Aneja)

The Visual Basic Team, November 4, 2009
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Microsoft has this neat mailing list called Spot the Bug where developers can send interesting snippets of code that look correct but actually have subtle bugs in them.  The puzzles are a lot of ...

Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010

The Moth, October 30, 2009
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1. Start 2 instances of Visual Studio 2010 (devenv.exe).2. In the first one select Tools -> Attach to Process.3. Click the Select button for Attach to: and select Managed and Native.4. Select the oth...

Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010

The Moth, October 30, 2009
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1. Start 2 instances of Visual Studio 2010 (devenv.exe).2. In the first one select Tools -> Attach to Process.3. Click the Select button for Attach to: and select Managed and Native.4. Select the oth...

What is Softwaremaker doing now ?

Softwaremaker, October 24, 2009
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For years, I have expanded my brains to learn on different skills and topics as I have always believed in the principle of constant learning and experimenting. The day where you stop learning is the ...

Visual Basic How Do I Videos

The Visual Basic Team, October 22, 2009
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Weve started two new How Do I videos series on the Visual Basic Developer Center. More to come, but heres the latest! ...

HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, October 16, 2009
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The 0908 SDK has dropped, and Id like to talk about some of the highlights of this release. SODA The big one is SODA, our name for the ability to write non-web-based HealthVault applications. S...

Animation on MSDN Web Pages? No Thanks

WebLog of Ken Cox [MVP], October 13, 2009
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I may be fighting a losing battle against the Silverlight/Flash animation gurus. The Visual Basic Developer site on MSDN is showing off a preview of its proposed redesign . One of the features is a fl...

Getting Loopy (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, October 7, 2009
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In my last post, I talked about the hidden costs that can occur whenever you call out to methods, particularly in loops.  In looking at my examples, reader KG2V commented that another thing that ...

machineKey Generator

Guy Barrettes WebLog, September 27, 2009
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When deploying to a Web farm, each server has to have the same machineKey validation key.  This MSDN page explains everything you want to know about that even providing some C# and VB code to gen...

Testing Events for Nothing/Null (Doug Rothaus)

The Visual Basic Team, September 25, 2009
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While helping some Windows API folks with some sample code this week, I stumbled upon...uh...I mean carefully researched an issue that you might find handy. You may be aware that the RaiseEvent statem...

Trials & Tribulations of running windows scripts in Vista

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., September 23, 2009
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I have a client with a legacy VB6 app which we occasionally tweak. It has an exe and many DLLs. Over the years I graduated from using a batch file to a script (WSF) file to let them pull updates. The ...

ASP.NET 3.5 Custom Windows Authentication using VB.net a Case Study

The Code Project Latest Articles, September 18, 2009
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A case study showcasing Windows Authentication and custom role based authorization in ASP.Net 3.5 using VB.Net...

Automatically documenting web site projects created in VB with Sandcastle

The Code Project Latest Articles, September 9, 2009
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Build the CHM file automatically when building a "web site project" created with VB.NET - How I combined several steps into a single process....

Why VBA Still Makes Sense

John R. Durants WebLog, September 7, 2009
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Not infrequently I am asked, So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it supported? Should I migrate away from VBA now? Can I count on this technology? (Here I go with a respo...

Properties vs Fields Why Does it Matter? (Jonathan Aneja)

The Visual Basic Team, September 4, 2009
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The other day I got an email from a developer asking an interesting question about VB10s Auto-implemented Properties feature. I am, however, somewhat confused regarding the properties feature you...

Languages in the 2nd Edition of Programming Entity Framework

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., August 20, 2009
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I have a very difficult task ahead of me with the EF4 version of my book. The book is already over 800 pages and will only get longer with all of the new features in Entity Framework 4. However O&rsqu...

Protect Files and Folders Using HttpHandlers in ASP.net

The Code Project Latest Articles, August 20, 2009
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A quick walkthrough showing how to protect files and folders in Vb.net & C-Sharp.net, using HttpHandlers....

VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

Somasegars WebLog, August 20, 2009
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Choosing a programming language is a personal choice that each programmer gets to make.  It is akin to choosing a flavor of ice cream - there are many great options out there, but your favorite f...

Its a Small World, After All, part 1 VB, C#, and GPS (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, August 4, 2009
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The title of this blog post has sort of a triple meaning for me.  First of all, I just got back from a long (and wonderful!) cruise in the Caribbean, followed by a stop at Disney World.  And...

Sparklines OM in Excel & Confessions of a Microsoft Insider (shhhh)

John R. Durants WebLog, July 29, 2009
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You might be tempted to think that, given that Im so-called insider Id know all about everything in Office 2010. But, the fact is that there is so much to the products in Office that few people can kn...

How to check your network connection state

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, July 20, 2009
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If you need to check the state of your network connection in C#, I know of 2 ways (that Im aware of) to do this:   1.  Steal from VB You can use the VB My functions by importing the Micro...

Windows 7 Media Center - Sky Digital + Freeview HD Setup.

Nigel Parkers Outside Line, July 7, 2009
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I have been getting a lot of questions recently about my home media center setup since I told people that I have moved to the Windows 7 Release Candidate. I thought the best way to address things is w...

Rocky's MCsla on the Olso May CTP

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, July 6, 2009
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Rockford Lhotka of several C# and VB books and the world-renown CSLA .NET business object framework has ported his "Oslo"-based MCsla.NET to the May 2009 CTP. For the part that he's made work in "O...

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